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News Release from: Berkeley Design Automation | Subject: BDTI Communications Benchmark
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 18 October 2007
Multicore processor undergoes testing
BDTI used its BDTI Communications Benchmark (OFDM) to evaluate the performance of the PC102, a programmable multicore digital signal processor.
Berkeley Design Technology (BDTI) has concluded its first public benchmarking of a massively parallel multicore processor, the picoChip PC102 from picoChip Designs BDTI used its BDTI Communications Benchmark (OFDM) to evaluate the performance of the PC102, a programmable multicore digital signal processor containing 308 heterogeneous processor cores and 14 coprocessors
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 17 Jan 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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The BDTI Communications Benchmark (OFDM) is an application-oriented benchmark based on an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) receiver and is representative of the baseband processing found in many current and emerging wired and wireless communications applications.
Jeff Bier, President of BDTI, said: "BDTI is pleased that picoChip has selected the BDTI Communications Benchmark (OFDM) to demonstrate the capabilities of the PC102".
"A aspect of BDTI's benchmarks is that they enable comparison of highly dissimilar processing devices".
"For example, the BDTI Communications Benchmark (OFDM) has been used to compare the performance of conventional single-core DSP processors, FPGAs and multicore processors from a variety of vendors".
The BDTI Communications Benchmark (OFDM) is a simplified OFDM communications receiver.
It was designed to closely model the computationally demanding functions of broadband communications applications while limiting complexity in order to minimise the effort needed to implement the benchmark.
The BDTI Communications Benchmark (OFDM) and other application-oriented benchmarks developed by BDTI are the only independently developed and certified benchmarks for comparing the capabilities of widely different processing devices on embedded processing tasks.
Other application-oriented benchmark suites from BDTI suitable for evaluating multicore processing solutions include the BDTI Video Encoder and Decoder Benchmarks and the BDTI Solution Benchmark for H.264 Decoding.
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